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QUIT SINDE.-DANGERS.
CHAP. I.
" the contents thereof to your master. I have now
" returned, and await an answer.
3. " You may send any number of armed men
" that you please; my life is in your power ; but
" remember that the Ameer will hold every one
" responsible who molests me. Remember, too,
" that I am a British officer, and have come without
" a musket or a soldier, as you well know, placing
" implicit reliance on the protection of the ruler of
" Sinde, to whose care my Government have com-
" mitted me.
4. " I send this memorandum by two of my own
" servants, and look to you for their being pro-
« tected."
This remonstrance drew no reply from the agent
at Darajee; for the individual who had held that
situation on our first visit to Sinde, had been dis-
missed for permitting us to ascend the river; and
our servants brought us notice that we should not
be permitted to land, nor to receive either food or
water. We observed, therefore, the greatest pos-
sible economy in the distribution of our provisions,
and placed padlocks on the tanks, in the hope of
reason yet guiding the councils of the Ameer.
When our supply of water failed, I despatched a
small boat up the river to procure some; but it was
seized, and the party detained ; which now rendered
us hopeless of success, and only anxious to quit the
inhospitable shores of Sinde.
On the 22d of February we weighed anchor,
at daylight; and when in the narrow mouth of
the river, the wind suddenly changed. The tide,
QUIT SINDE.-DANGERS.
CHAP. I.
" the contents thereof to your master. I have now
" returned, and await an answer.
3. " You may send any number of armed men
" that you please; my life is in your power ; but
" remember that the Ameer will hold every one
" responsible who molests me. Remember, too,
" that I am a British officer, and have come without
" a musket or a soldier, as you well know, placing
" implicit reliance on the protection of the ruler of
" Sinde, to whose care my Government have com-
" mitted me.
4. " I send this memorandum by two of my own
" servants, and look to you for their being pro-
« tected."
This remonstrance drew no reply from the agent
at Darajee; for the individual who had held that
situation on our first visit to Sinde, had been dis-
missed for permitting us to ascend the river; and
our servants brought us notice that we should not
be permitted to land, nor to receive either food or
water. We observed, therefore, the greatest pos-
sible economy in the distribution of our provisions,
and placed padlocks on the tanks, in the hope of
reason yet guiding the councils of the Ameer.
When our supply of water failed, I despatched a
small boat up the river to procure some; but it was
seized, and the party detained ; which now rendered
us hopeless of success, and only anxious to quit the
inhospitable shores of Sinde.
On the 22d of February we weighed anchor,
at daylight; and when in the narrow mouth of
the river, the wind suddenly changed. The tide,